Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

Years teach us more than books.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

Be glad for the sacred breath.

If only you knew what God has in the book of success for you, you wouldn't have a single reason to live in doubts and worries again.

It made her want to have his babies and give him both her kidneys.

Fear is sand in the machinery of life.

People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all.

If we don't get the deal we want, we leave NAFTA and start over to get a much better, a much more fair deal because right now, we're a one-way highway into Mexico, a one-way highway .

To kill a citizen of our own country is evil, but to kill a citizen of another country is 'good.'

You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

It is what you are inside that matter. You, yourself, are your only real capital.